miodhlach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish midlach (“one incapable of bearing arms, below the status of a warrior, weak-witted person; coward, weakling”).

Noun

miodhlach f (genitive singular miodhlaí, nominative plural miodhlacha)

1. (literary) weakling, coward; buffoon, imbecile

Declension

Declension of miodhlach

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative miodhlach miodhlacha Vocative a mhiodhlach a mhiodhlacha Genitive miodhlaí miodhlach Dative miodhlach miodhlacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an mhiodhlach na miodhlacha Genitive na miodhlaí na miodhlach Dative leis an miodhlach don mhiodhlach leis na miodhlacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
miodhlach	mhiodhlach	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miodhlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “midlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language